2020 ARCA Menards Series West

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Jesse Love, the 2020 ARCA Menards Series West champion. Jesse Love 2020 New Smyrna (cropped).jpg
Jesse Love, the 2020 ARCA Menards Series West champion.
Blaine Perkins, driving the No. 9 car for Sunrise Ford Racing, finished second behind Love in the championship by 25 points. Perkins Roseville 2020.jpg
Blaine Perkins, driving the No. 9 car for Sunrise Ford Racing, finished second behind Love in the championship by 25 points.
Gracie Trotter finished third in the championship. TrotterNewSmyrnaDriverIntros2020.jpg
Gracie Trotter finished third in the championship.

The 2020 ARCA Menards Series West was the sixty-seventh season of the ARCA Menards Series West, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR. It began on February 20 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring with the Star Nursery 150, and ended on November 6 at Phoenix Raceway with the Arizona Lottery 100.

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2020 marked the first season of this series under the ARCA banner.

When the season was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, drivers from all NASCAR series, including a few ARCA Menards series drivers, participated in the inaugural eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series during that time.

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule

ManufacturerTeamNo.DriverCrew chief
Ford Sunrise Ford Racing 6 Trevor Huddleston [1] Bill Sedgwick
9 Blaine Perkins Jeff Schrader
Toyota Bill McAnally Racing 16 Gio Scelzi (R) [2] John Camilleri [1]
19 Jesse Love (R) [2] Kyle Wolosek 7
Jason Dickenson 4
99 Gracie Trotter (R) [2] Roger Bracken [1]
Central Coast Racing 13 Todd Souza Michael Muñoz
Performance P-1 Motorsports77 Takuma Koga Ron Norman 6
Gere Kennon Jr. 1
Will Harris 1
Chris Greaney 3
Toyota 3
Chevrolet 8
Hillis Racing 27 Bobby Hillis Jr. Henry Manh 9
Ed Ash 2

Limited schedule

ManufacturerTeamNo.DriverCrew chiefRounds
Chevrolet Chad Bryant Racing 22 Kris Wright [N 1] Paul Andrews 1
Fast Track Racing 10 Cody Erickson Mike Sroufe1
GMS Racing 21 Sam Mayer Mardy Lindley2 [3]
Kart Idaho Racing11 Chris Lowden Sonny Wahl1
Dustin Ash 1
Legal Limit Motorsports 80 Brian Kamisky Dereck Copeland2
Steve McGowan Motorsports17 Zane Smith Sean Samuels1
Win-Tron Racing 32 Howie DiSavino III Jamie Jones1
Zach Telford Racing17 Zach Telford Danny Christiani1
Ford Borneman Motorsports 8 Johnny Borneman III Will Harris1
DGR-Crosley 4 David Gilliland Derek Smith1
17 Taylor Gray Blake Bainbridge 2
Seth Smith 2
Chad Johnston 1
5
54 Todd Gilliland Chris Lawson 1
JP Racing [4] 7 Austin Reed Jerry Pitts1
Kris Wright 2
Devin Dodson 2
Kyle Keller 2
Rette Jones Racing 30 Justin Lofton Mark Rette1
Toyota Bill McAnally Racing 12 Lawless Alan (R)Gary Collins4
Alex Sedgwick Kevin Bellicourt1
50 Holley Hollan (R) [2] Henry Nascimento10
Fast Track Racing 12 Chris Hacker [N 2] Kevin Cram1
Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Ty Gibbs Mark McFarland 1
Naake-Klauer Motorsports54 Joey Iest Mike Naake4
Velocity Racing 78 Jack Wood Ty Joiner8 [5]
Venturini Motorsports 15 Drew Dollar Shannon Rursch1
20 Ryan Repko Kevin Reed Jr.1
Corey Heim Billy Venturini1 [6]
25 Mason Diaz Kevin Reed2
Keith Rocco 1
Chevrolet 2
Ford 1
Jefferson Racing [4] 42 Will Rodgers Jeff Jefferson2
Brittney Zamora 1
Chevrolet 1
Toyota 8
BMI Racing 88 Bridget Burgess Sarah Burgess 9

Notes

  1. Entry was fielded in a collaboration with GMS Racing.
  2. Entry was fielded in a collaboration with Cram Racing Enterprises.

Changes

Teams

  • On August 14, 2019, longtime West Series team Jefferson Pitts Racing announced that they would be splitting up into two teams, with Jeff Jefferson owning Jefferson Racing (and the new No. 42 car) and Jerry Pitts owning JP Racing (and the previously existing No. 7 car). [4] This continues into 2020, with both teams running part-time schedules.
  • Bill McAnally Racing announced that they would be fielding four full-time teams in 2020 (up from three in 2019), with their No. 50 Toyota, previously a part-time car, running full-time in 2020 along with the Nos. 16, 19, and 99. However, on January 31, 2020, they announced a fifth full-time car, the No. 12, for Lawless Alan, who drove the same car part-time last season. This brings BMR up to five full-time teams for five rookie drivers.
  • Venturini Motorsports will field a West Series team for the first time in 2020, with Corey Heim driving a car for them at Sonoma and the season-finale at Phoenix (as well as three races in the ARCA East Series and two in the big ARCA Menards Series). [6]

Drivers

  • On January 14, 2020, Bill McAnally Racing announced their 2020 driver lineup, with all four of their drivers new to the team and running for rookie of the year. [2]
  • On January 16, 2020, Corey Heim was announced as the driver of Venturini Motorsports' new part-time ARCA West Series team. [6]
  • On January 29, 2020, it was announced that Blaine Perkins would be driving full-time for Sunrise Ford Racing in 2020, replacing 2019 rookie of the year and 2nd-place points finisher Jagger Jones as a driver on that team. Perkins was without a ride in any NASCAR or ARCA Series in 2019, and drove full-time for two years (2016 and 2017) in the West Series for Steve Portenga's team before running part-time in the ARCA Menards Series in 2018 for Mason Mitchell's team. Perkins will drive the No. 9, replacing Trevor Huddleston, who moves from the No. 9 to the No. 6 which was Jones' car in 2019.
  • On January 31, 2020, it was announced that Lawless Alan, who drove the No. 12 part-time for Bill McAnally Racing last year, would run full-time in the same car this season in addition to the other four drivers the team announced two weeks prior.
  • On March 16, 2020, Zamora, who had lost her ride in the McAnally No. 99 to Trotter, tweeted that she would be attempting the race at Irwindale in the No. 42 Ford for Jefferson Racing.

Schedule

On January 6, 2020, NASCAR released the schedule for the 2020 season. [7] As part of the unification of the East and West series with the ARCA Menards Series, the schedule decreased from fourteen races in 2019 to eleven races in 2020. The number of races was originally ten, however, an additional race at Utah Motorsports Campus was announced on March 3, 2020. [8]

As part of the unification of the East and West series with the ARCA Menards Series, the West will participate in the Sioux Chief Showdown, a ten-race series within the main ARCA series featuring drivers from each of the three branches. [9]

In terms of TV, NBC will continue to broadcast the West Series schedule on tape delay as they have in the past. [10]

No.Race titleTrackDate
1Star Nursery 150 Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Bullring), Las Vegas February 20
2 ENEOS/Sunrise Ford Twin 30 [8] Utah Motorsports Campus, Grantsville June 27 [11]
3
4ENEOS 125 presented by NAPA Auto Parts Irwindale Speedway, Irwindale July 4
5ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 100 Evergreen Speedway, Monroe August 7
6ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 150 Douglas County Speedway, Roseburg August 8
7ENEOS 150 presented by NAPA Auto Parts Colorado National Speedway, Dacono August 22
8General Tire 150 [N 1] Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Bullring), Las Vegas September 26
9NAPA 125 presented by CashInTheCan.com All American Speedway, Roseville October 23
10NAPA/ENEOS 125 presented by West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame Kern County Raceway Park, Bakersfield October 25
11Arizona Lottery 100 Phoenix Raceway, Avondale November 7
  1. LVMS Bullring's second race replaced the Meridian Speedway race.

Schedule changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results and standings

Races

No.Race Pole Position Most laps ledWinning driverManufacturerNo.Winning team
1Star Nursery 150 Sam Mayer Sam Mayer Sam Mayer Chevrolet 21 GMS Racing
2 ENEOS/Sunrise Ford Twin 30 Blaine Perkins Jesse Love Jesse Love Toyota 19 Bill McAnally Racing
3 ENEOS/Sunrise Ford Twin 30 Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Ford 9 Sunrise Ford Racing
4ENEOS 125 presented by NAPA Auto Parts Jesse Love Jesse Love Jesse Love Toyota 19 Bill McAnally Racing
5ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 100 Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Ford 9 Sunrise Ford Racing
6ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 150 Gio Scelzi Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Ford 9 Sunrise Ford Racing
7ENEOS 150 presented by NAPA Auto Parts Jesse Love Jesse Love Jesse Love Toyota 19 Bill McAnally Racing
8General Tire 150 Jesse Love Gracie Trotter Gracie Trotter Toyota 99 Bill McAnally Racing
9NAPA 125 presented by CashInTheCan.com Taylor Gray Taylor Gray Gio Scelzi Toyota 16 Bill McAnally Racing
10NAPA/ENEOS 125 presented by West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame Jesse Love Taylor Gray Taylor Gray Ford 17 DGR-Crosley
11Arizona Lottery 100 David Gilliland Ty Gibbs David Gilliland Ford 4 DGR-Crosley

Drivers' championship

Note: The pole-winner also receives 1 bonus point, similar to the previous ARCA points system used until 2019 and unlike NASCAR.

(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.

PosDriver LVS MMP MMP IRW EVG DCS CNS LVS AAS KCR PHO Points
1 Jesse Love (R)21*21*431*34814513
2 Blaine Perkins 3111**41**1*2105325488
3 Gracie Trotter (R)47735241*1059482
4 Trevor Huddleston 5135225612347472
5 Gio Scelzi (R)10341434321927460
6 Todd Souza 8667711852717450
7 Takuma Koga 11141410989691223409
8 Bobby Hillis Jr. 131013161010118131120399
9 Holley Hollan (R)12910116779615398
10 Bridget Burgess 1712119107111422283
11 Jack Wood 71586581024269
12 Taylor Gray 4117*1*3202
13 Lawless Alan (R)612129137
14 Joey Iest 14111312126
15 Kris Wright 2318109
16 Kyle Keller 4678
17 Mason Diaz 12276
18 Will Rodgers 5875
19 Sam Mayer 1*2172
20 Brian Kamisky 8971
21 Devin Dodson 51667
22 David Gilliland 148
23 Ty Gibbs 2*44
24 Todd Gilliland 440
25 Drew Dollar 539
26 Johnny Borneman III 638
27 Justin Lofton 638
28 Dustin Ash 836
29 Corey Heim 836
30Austin Reed935
31 Keith Rocco 1034
32 Howie DiSavino III 1133
33 Brittney Zamora 1331
34 Alex Sedgwick 1331
35 Chris Lowden 1529
36 Chris Hacker 1529
37Zach Telford1628
38 Ryan Repko 1628
39 Cody Erickson 1925
40 Zane Smith 2618

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